i. think. in the stories that shaped the week the first ever summit between vladimir putin and north korea's kim jong un bilateral relations with a focus also on breaking the nuclear deadlock on the korean peninsula. russian national marine jailed in the u.s. for failing to register as a foreign agent but a lawyer insists she's a victim of washington's current political climate. none of. these activities of the u.s. were illegal. in and of themselves but she got caught up in this and she rushes. and saudi arabia comes under fire from the un and human rights groups for a mass execution which concerns that the charges against the thirty seven most

inhuman were trumped up. the weekly here on our international with me in a deal with highlights from the last seven days on the latest up to date stories welcome to the program. from a nuclear free north korea to bilateral relations. and met for the first time on thursday in russia's far eastern city of lot of os talk after nearly two hours of face to face talks the leaders expressed a willingness to further develop relations and tackle the situation on the korean peninsula. and that's just we just had a fairly alright one two one conversation we managed to talk about the history of our bilateral relations and about the present day and the prospects of developing those relations but of course we also talked about the situation on the korean peninsula and exchanged views on what needs to be done to improve the situation. in

the audience mr president we have just had a foreign exchange of opinions trace to freeze on all of this of mutual importance and i think you look great we are. and even though no agreement was signed it seems the natives had a productive time to exchange so it's a symbol of the mutual respect between the nations and wrapped up in the talks with a lot north korean state media reported that camp is ready for more talks next time in pyongyang. at that point.

literally minutes after the north korean supreme leader got inside his limo we were given the opportunity to come closer to his armored train. so unfortunately i won't be able to show you or see for myself any of the extraordinary facilities inside that tray that was used by cam john father i was trying to look through the window but obviously no chances and the secure. he guards or watch carefully to make sure that we don't touch it i've already been told off by the inside there are high tech communication facilities several conference room as well as luxury living quarters in the middle of the train there's a special room for him john lewis wife and white next to separate carts for body

guards there are two restaurants one is for the supreme leader himself and the second one is for the entire delegation there's even a special section for the leaders limo and they're the one that we saw on the station square that massive armored vehicles can actually fit into one of those. well it turns out that in a sense john is counting on vladimir putin as a kind of

a middleman in delivering his messages to the rest of the world leadership it looks like chairman kim is hoping that his message will get all the way to washington through russia as well to some german king also be directly to tell the u.s. about his position and about the questions he says it today should with the situation on the korean peninsula we also found out that the russian leader is confident that pyongyang essential desire is international security guarantees guarantee. for sovereignty and when it comes to dating korea zation according to mr putin the only way forward is through these kind of guarantees i would like to remind you that for years russia's peace road map was about mutual concessions

from both sides of north korea on the one hand and south korea and allies on the other and china is backing this plan to well the russian president believes that for years every step forward made by washington was followed by two steps backwards . but we need some code for this building measures to be taken which could have been taken back in two thousand and five when the u.s. and north korea came to an agreement however later on for some reason the american partners thought this was no it's enough that they needed to add something to this agreement that's when north korea with drew from the treaty if you're making a step forward in two steps back you will never succeed. after what we heard on thursday it is definitely fair to say that there is a lot of potential in camp putin summit and by the way the president of south korea said that this summit in blood of all stock should act as a springboard for further top ranked diplomacy between washington and

pyongyang so chairman kim has been enjoying contacts with the most powerful politicians on this planet his two historic summits with the american president donald trump were followed by one with a lot of our putin and it looks like mr cameron knows what he's doing when he's playing his geo political game and i. spoke to says the summit is a win win and. or. it looks like now he tried to see someone else to help korea out in between recent by a literal meeting between north korea and the us he was so sure that he can't leave the meeting between the u.s. and north korea but now he needs. some help for put inside here essentially achieved new election and also now he can have

a spot lies from the international community by playing the role for the korea over the korean peninsula as a peacemaker so it would be. for today's summit currently now south korea having air exercise rivero u.s. and south korea cannot be free from u.s. pressure because of a sense for south korea it could be good to have. if russia can play the right role as a mediator because for south korea itself it could be a little bit tricky to work in between the u.s. and north korea. russian national maria buton and was sentenced to eighteen months in prison in the united states on friday it's after she pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent essentially working as an undeclared lobbyist the thirty year old is said to have tried to influence the national rifle association and other conservative groups in the u.s. several american political figures were suspected to be involved in court ms

brooten spoke emotionally about the effect it's had on her family. my parents discovered my arrest on the morning news they washed in their rural hollows in a village i love them dearly but i harm the morally and financially they're suffering from all of that i destroyed my own life as well i came to the united states not under any orders but with hope and now nothing remains but penitence. i have reasons to she's not the main goal of the circumstances she was to break her will and force her to really acknowledge something she might not have done.

they are trying to save face but to grab her seized her would put her behind bars but there is nothing they can charge or wish to change and to avoid looking with the killers they sentenced her to eighteen months just to show she is guilty of something. there is father exclusively told r.t. that he and the rest of his family had been expecting a very different outcome. we knew we weren't prepared for such a rough and unjust court decision. is a russian citizen and given all these investigations she's been caught up in it will even though the mother investigation had nothing to do with her nevertheless the us has found a coper it's

a group over the past few months she didn't have any complaints about the condition of her confinement unlike before when she was badly treated and i was a bit discriminated against all of them were all in solitary confinement with will be allowed to two hours a night with oaxaca maria a lawyer is we all expected a different outcome when the fed verdict but it's hard to say how life will be for mary and now the most important thing for us is that she returns home taking into account least new job was. put to his lawyer told us he thinks a dangerous precedent may have been set. i think it's impossible to separate from from the politics i think that there is a an underlying crime that she pled guilty to which you can make out under u.s. law but i think the notion of this would have been investigated or and the rest would have been made for a typical foreign national who wasn't russian and wasn't in the car environment or

in the u.s. i think it's almost impossible to to believe that southern politics has a lot to do with the atmosphere of the case and it's one of those things where if the elements of the crime are there they were selectively enforced in this instance i think it's hard to argue. the charges unregistered agent it's not foreign it's not secret agent it's not intelligence agent it literally is just doing something for someone else as being their agent not of maria maria's activities in the us were illegal in and of themselves so there's no classified information there's no political sensitive kind of information given she was not paid by by the russian federation she's out of her she was supported by americans while she was here financially but she got caught up in this and she rushes hysteria.

i would fear that other countries will start applying the same standards and saying that any american who went abroad to another country and it was involved in civil society organizations and social and met people and networks that's really all we're talking about doing are anything more serious than that and reported back on those activities some in the u.s. so i think it's very dangerous because if other countries adopted the same as you're going to get a tit for tat situation with countries grabbing civilians of other countries as leverage or for other reasons that i think it's a bad idea. and shooting at a synagogue could be a san diego in california has left one woman dead and three others wounded including avant by police have detained a nineteen year old man in connection with the instant wish to christ doing a service on saturday to month the jewish holiday of. the suspect reportedly posted an anti semitic message online before the attack on fasting eighteen month of the

incident was a hate crime. this all came exactly six months after the most devastating attack on the jewish community in recent u.s. history eleven people were killed in that atrocity in pittsburgh the senate where that shooting took place was responded to the latest incident saying the violence must end. the israeli prime minister has also expressed his condolences to the victims and announced plans for a summit to look at the rising number of anti-semitic attacks around the world human rights lawyer daniel conflict believes it's a dangerous time to be a member of a minority group in the u.s. . from pittsburgh in pittsburgh now i was here when the synagogue was attacked here a pittsburgh. this looks like a very similar incident and it's very clear that these people were attacked because they were jewish and so believe this is. racism in general which includes you know some of them. has a very large presence in america i think you know it's something america has

struggled with for you know a long time it's a very dangerous time in this country to be. in any way. nor do i mean that's just i mean you see a world that's very much on fire at the moment in which religious and ethnic tensions are high on the way thirty seven man are executed by society arabia sparking global condemnation and claims that the charges were.

we need a political evolves and that needs to come. from. well ideally the moment before it does in the past has been. giving political guidance to the process so basically what i'm waiting for is another political impulse ideally stemming from the moment you get.

back to the program international human rights groups have condemned a series of executions in saudi arabia this week thirty seven men mostly reportedly from the muslim shia minority were killed on quote terror and violence related charges one party was even stronger in public following his execution human rights watch states the killings and then launching escalation in the use of the death penalty in the country it also described the punishment as grotesque and expressed concern that those punished might not have received a fair trial here's our senior correspondent morag. few things so is much fear into the hearts of your own people is mass executions. the men were executed for adopting terrorists and extremists thinking and performing terrorists else to corrupt and destabilize security allegedly among their crimes was this respect towards authority some of them can you believe that like the king protested

against him so serious with their crimes that one of those executed was also crucified yes crucified and two thousand and nineteen his body drawn up for all to see for all to fear. today's must execution is a chilling demonstration of the so do you review no authority is callous disregard for human life it is also yet another gruesome indication of how the death penalty is being used as a political tool to crush dissent from within the country's shia minority in fact almost half of those killed were executed after taking part in pro-democracy protests see the arab spring didn't skirt saudi arabia the shia minority rose up they wanted change better fairer life the king obviously thought

they wanted too much. one of those executed by the way was sixteen years old at the time of his arrest attending a protest apparently he was still a kid now is an example you wouldn't believe how creative the saudis are when it comes to killing prisoners in fact the current king began his reign by staging a mask. execution forty seven people behaved it short for crimes that included disobey and saudi rulers biggest blood show since the nine hundred eighty s. who said fictions and common peaked in two thousand and twelve five people were strung

up paralysis reportedly is also in a judge's arsenal seriously they can sentence a person to be paralyzed as punishment routes back to a four thousand year old law that someone wrote on a stone pillar to through a tooth and literally in this case a knife or and i saudis took that stone very seriously in two thousand and five a court in saudi arabia ordered a migrants i gagged out as punishment for getting into a fight and pew taishan also a favorite especially for theft chopping off people's arms and feet stealing and of course stoning reserved for crimes like being too friendly with the opposite sex what can you say you want to cherry on top saudi arabia's on the un human

rights council what a world. in response to the widespread condemnation riyadh says they will not hesitate to punish anyone threatening the security and stability of the kingdom but the gulf institute for democracy and human rights claims society justice system often fabricates charges. the first time which so very be used that if you know t. took punish prisoners of conscience who ordered to talk about the human rights violations in the country not just. i think around five of the of the executive people you call where really charged by terrorists do to them charges we don't trust. i really enjoyed your system just how did and how did. you handle the magic in the eighty's the british soldiers who took to the streets to demand rights and freedoms and who spoke out about what was happening in the

country. most of the gulf kingdom so the idea being if you did you show the system to fabricate the charges against their dissidents especially against the activists who spoke out all the. media outlets or rules participated in demonstrations there. in the gulf kingdom especially in saudi arabia no one is a low just about what's happening in the country. a swedish computer programmer arrested in ecuador for an alleged cyber attack on government systems has finally been allowed to see visitors earlier binny's parents were granted access to him in jail on chews day and as he and his parents insist there's no foundation for the charges the swedish foreign minister is also demanding ecuador explain his arrest mr binney is an expert in cyber security and also a digital privacy advocate he's reportedly linked to wiki leaks and was detained

just hours after a whistleblower during the sarge was arrested in the ecuadorian embassy in london earlier this month we spoke to father. he didn't get to talk too slow or in the right time and he didn't get to me to counsel in the right and there was so many wrong things that were down there everything else is that all has one book of noam chomsky and us that he has a lot of memory sticks and that is all the her. and that is not enough to arrest the person human rights activists say there's no proof of olympian needs killed and a number of celebrities activists and politicians signed an open letter to the swedish government calling for help to free the programmer his artie's quarter. seems being friends with julian a sonship might just cost you your freedom as the wiki leaks co-founder was dragged

into the back of a british police van another hacktivists shared a similar fate all of being he was arrested on the same day allegedly for working with assad and for several years now one of the key members of the week you leaks in a person close to me said you and songe has lived in the uk with do and we have sufficient evidence that he has been collaborating with the best bligh's ation attempts against the government prosecutors charged me with attacking ecuadorian computer systems and their evidence laptops and encrypted u.s.b. sticks seized from beanies home president lenin moreno pointed to frequent travel as a mark of guilt suspecting bini visited a songe to do his bidding and one of the reasons he kicked out a songe was suspicion he was using the aqua dorian embassy as a hacktivist ecuador's interior minister says it will not be tolerated even if it's mere suspicion it is up to the justice system to determine if he committed a crime we can't allow inquiry to become essential for piracy in spying that period

in our history is over so just hours after assad was dragged out of the dorian embassy beenie was detained in quito airport his lawyers say his rights were violated in many ways no charges no translator he was even denied bail and his parents fear for his safety it's a tough time for him if he doesn't really understand why he's. forty has been accused of. and this isn't just another hacktivist we're talking about here beanie worked on the advisory board for a major european commission funded project called decode the initiative involves cyber security experts researching data ownership and technological sovereignty human rights groups and high profile figures are calling for beanies immediate. release and also in sweden those and big newspaper thespian them.

giving out this petition or open letter to our prime minister that he should be released and this has been signed over. about hundred very. prominent persons from around the world it shouldn't be dangerous for anyone in ecuador or elsewhere to just know mr sausage several thousand kilometers north another assan sling tactic is to sitting in jail a u.s. federal appeals court has denied chelsea manning bail after she was arrested once again in march and for what refusing to testify in court against a songe it seems like any connection to wiki leaks can get you in jail so if you've ever rubbed elbows with julian a songe it might be better to keep quiet about it. that's on you so now i'll be back at the top of the next hour with more updates in the meantime do stay tuned for worlds apart which is next here on our to international.

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